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Seamus Heaney 1939-2013

Fri 30 Aug 2013

Poet and Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney reading some of his poetry to a full room during an Out to Lunch Poetry Reading in the Bank of Ireland Arts Centre in Dublin. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times

Seamus Heaney at an anti-apartheid protest in Dublin in 1985. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh/The Irish Times

The poet Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill receiving the Parnell whitethorn walking stick from the Nobel laureate poet Dr Seamus Heaney (left),at a private ceremony in the RDS in 1998. Also at the presentation were from left: Dr Conor Cruise O'Brien (a former custodian of the Stick), author Tom Flanagan, publisher and poet Peter Fallon, Dogan Leflef (husband of the poet), Marie Heaney, and poet Máire Mhac an tSaoi . Photograph: Matt Kavanagh/The Irish Times

The poet photographed during an interview at the Abbey Theatre in 2004. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh/The Irish Times

The poet photographed at home in Sandymount in 2009. Photograph: Bryan O'Brien/The Irish Times

Seamus Heaney, who was presented with the UCD Ulysses Medal, at the Bloomsday Conferrings at Belfield in 2011. Photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times

The poet Dr Seamus Heaney his wife Marie at a ceremony in the reading room of the National Library where the literary papers of the Irish Nobel Laureate , poet Dr Seamus Heaney were donated in 2011. The archive includes manuscripts of Heaney's poetry, handwritten and typed loose leaf worksheets and notebooks that span his literary career. Photograph: Bryan O'Brien/The Irish Times

Seamus Heaney speaking with Anthony Cronin at the Aosdána general assembly in The Royal Hospital Kilmainham Dublin in April of this year. Photograph: David Sleator/The Irish Times

Jean Kennedy Smith and Seamus Heaney at the opening of the Kennedy Homestead and visitor centre, at New Ross , Co. Wexford, in June 2013.
Photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times

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'Tollund Man' by Seamus Heaney. The literary papers of the Irish Nobel Laureate , the poet Dr Seamus Heaney were donated. handed over the National Libraryat a special ceremony in 2011. The archive includes manuscripts of Heaney's poetry, handwritten and typed loose leaf worksheets and notebooks that span his literary career. Photograph: Bryan O'Brien/The Irish Times